Intruder
Perpetual eye
Stares down ineluctably
On lesser mortals
Temperamentally
Disposed to transgression
Panoptical illusions
Disturbs internal security
Stranded camera
Grimbeau
Scroodles
Category: writing
September 13, 2016
September 12, 2016
Chaman
Green tea infusion
Cumulus stratus nimbus
Squirt runny honey
What else is available—
paperwork, towelling, fear
doubt, Japanese verse forms
compromise and surrender
plenary self-indulgence
Time to make up lists
Self-fulfooling prophecies
Caught anything yet?
Have a shower after this
next coffee, then a crap,
and a l o n g shower.
Its bloody Monday
morning just look at what you have
been through all you’ve
been through just to get to here
September 11, 2016
jam trap
Jam tomorrow and jam today—how I hate those pesky jam traps. Venus Fly, Man
And Honey aren’t much to write home about either
now I come to think of it. Best to avoid them all, or trigger them with a barge pole or pole vault pole from a safe distance behind a rubber gum tree
Early days of future past, soap sudsy bubble bath, flyblown tumbleweed scuds, pink candyfloss monstrosity coated in wasps
stand up and be counted out on a technicality, retire to the Galapagos, going over old ground, check the lobster pots for squatters
Harrison Birtwhistle whispers sweet nothings, thistles bristle purple thorax, gentian blue crab apples skedaddle helter skelter down the lane
September 11, 2016
Omnibus Blues
Change is decay, all growth is benign, progress is not what it was, nothing ever changes much, people come and go, that’s all there is to it, what more do you want?
Every cloud has a silver lining, Wilbur, so let’s buy some buckets and spades and build some fancy new-fangled contraption and go get stinking rich
Waltzing Matilda fell through the door, collapsed on the floor, crawled into bed, and descended into lavender fields bathed in water
Looking for the gear lever, awful grinding sound, smell of abject poverty, damp cardboard boxes, stale body odour, taste of mass consumption,
overwhelming hyacinth dreams of wonky power alchemy on toast, wobbly jelly roll agenda
Roast chicken Trujillo drumroll
personal hygiene seldom if ever funny take your daffodils follow prescribed instructions
very tiny small print don’t forget to do-dah
host harbours hierophant unhinges white anchovies extinguishes two milk bottles
challenges goldfish to nine holes medal
September 11, 2016
perambulator
yellow wave insurgent sea
splashes hurdle ‘arbour wall
drench morning strollers
shiny black mackintoshes
up buttoned collars
seek out scoundrel’s last refuge
working man’s café
hot cup of green tea
do more good than harm
waste not to want not
facing stark choices
Bovril or Marmite
Mermaid or Dolphin?
wash your face at least
funny taste of surgeon
red carbolic soap tablet
fiddly little cuss it is
the only way is…Oops!
September 10, 2016
white houseclock
play is suspended
due to lack of interest
casablanca time
September 9, 2016
In Her Own Write
book of the week ends with six pips
her name was Beryl Bainbridge
her sparkling eyes & dazzling quips
cascading from her lucid lips
finely sculpted flattened vowels
came back to me from
a documentary I once saw
about John Lennon
September 8, 2016
Tribes
Feral Beryl married Bill Sensible - a brown shoe salesmen They lived for a while in Strawberry Hill Then came the schism Reason: Post-Imperialism
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